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by shrikant 7y ago
What made it more galling in this specific instance is that Peston and Kuenssberg didn't even use the usual weasel words of "A source told me..." -- they reported it as a fact: https://pbs.twimg.com/media&#x2F
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by shrikant 7y ago
Blogspam + clickbaity headline. The ZDnet article that this light summary links to has better details: > The Microsoft threat research team scanned all Microsoft user accounts and found that 44 million users were employing usernames and
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Atlassian scrambles to fix 0-day security hole accidentally disclosed on Twitter(theregister.co.uk)
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by shrikant 7y ago
He probably learned the 6 billion people fact sometime during high school and has never updated it since then. (I may be projecting, as I'm often guilty of this especially w.r.t global geography)
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Key GCP Announcements This Week at Next UK(cloud.google.com)
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by shrikant 7y ago
There's also this: https://pypi.org/project/pandasql/
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A mechanism to explain bias in political reasoning: asymmetric Baysianism(peterlevine.ws)
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Taking DuckDB [a SQLite-for-Analytics] for a Spin(uwekorn.com)
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by shrikant 7y ago
One obvious thing that's missing here is Microsoft's SQL Server. Solid piece of software and associated tooling that has a free "Developer Edition", a full-featured version for developer use!
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by shrikant 7y ago
In my experience, this is usually because they realise that applying sexy algorithms and generating magic earth-shattering insights is about 2% of the job, and the rest is "boring" stuff like automation, data cleansing, performanc
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by shrikant 7y ago
I'd always associated the term "karma whores" with people who recycle and repost stuff for the imaginary Internet points. "IPC personalities" would be people who are actually reasonably well-intentioned, but sort of
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by shrikant 7y ago
> Internet Point Chaser personalities Wow, thanks for putting a name to something that'd been annoying me for decades! It's so frustrating having to re-calibrate your expectations of the value in a community when this happens t
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by shrikant 7y ago
This is not an example of that. Everytime someone (whether in the UK or EU) said "There's no other deal possible", it was always in the context of the UK and EU red lines. Surely as a hacker you must see that once the constra
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by shrikant 7y ago
> expressly forbidden from using ANY VC by the CEO [...] I read this and thought this could be because the CEO only thinks of version control as "GitHub", and is worried about putting sensitive information in the "cloud&qu
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by shrikant 7y ago
I'd disagree that a PIP is a blanket pink slip. At my current employer, I've personally seen (and mentored!) people on a PIP who've been given reasonably concrete feedback on how to improve their performance in terms of the
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Employers Used Facebook to Keep Women and Older Workers from Seeing Job Ads(propublica.org)
353 points by shrikant 7y ago|459 comments
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by shrikant 7y ago
I'm a big fan of WWDTM, because I find it funny. IMHO, it's the second-best podcast I listen to. It's relatively light, doesn't take itself too seriously, doesn't pretend to be a serious quiz, and the guest panelist
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by shrikant 7y ago
Where in Asia? The #1 (by a VERY LARGE margin) messaging apps in India, China, and S. Korea (at least) are all not iMessage. (Whatsapp, WeChat, and KakaoTalk respectively.)
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by shrikant 7y ago
Have you got a Pi-Hole setup or some such? LinkedIn on FF/Ubuntu works fine for me at home, but I think I had to whitelist something on Pi-Hole admin console.
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by shrikant 7y ago
I always assumed this is because Linux package managers such as apt and yum are first-class citizens on the platform, while Homebrew is a bit of a de-facto solution on macOS. This still holds, right?
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by shrikant 7y ago
He literally said they do not even compare.
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by shrikant 7y ago
I've been doing this at work for the last 4-5 years, and it's been an incredibly valuable exercise. In my case, it's just a simple spreadsheet called "Things Done". I too have trouble saying "no" when some
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by shrikant 7y ago
My technique was to pick a TV show that I basically knew all the lines to (Friends, in this case), and then watch it in Spanish with Spanish language subtitles. This way I already know what the English meaning is, and I can also map the sou
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by shrikant 7y ago
I've flagged this post because (IMHO): 1) Doesn't belong on HN. 2) Comments so far are unsubstantive -- ranging from "middlebrow dismissal" to flamebait. 3) Doesn't appear to be conducive to any sort of usef
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by shrikant 7y ago
Interesting indeed! My area has lots of tourists doing short stays, so I would've assumed that shops would be MORE open to accept all sorts of cash, but nope. Most places have notices that say they don't accept the £50 notes due t
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by shrikant 7y ago
Lots of shops (at least in my neighbourhood in London) flat out refuse to accept £50 notes.
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by shrikant 7y ago
I totally agree that it was good move from a user perspective. It's just a happy coincidence. Or perhaps they saw how many outfits (shady or otherwise) were affected by the ban and decided it represented a good market opportunity for t
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by shrikant 7y ago
Facebook had already banned advertising other cryptocurrencies in the run-up to this announcement (well, back in January 2018), so the effort to prevent other cryptocurrencies from scaling is well underway.
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by shrikant 7y ago
I find it interesting that Facebook banned cryptocurrency ads last year, citing safety from “financial products and services frequently associated with misleading or deceptive promotional practices.” https://www.vox.com/2018
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Salesforce to Buy Tableau for $15.3B in All-Stock Deal(bloomberg.com)
3 points by shrikant 7y ago|0 comments

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